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Coventry University’s Chelsea Flower Show exhibit wins award

The team behind Coventry University’s ‘healthy gardeners’ showcase at the Chelsea Flower Show has been awarded a bronze medal by the event’s judges.

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Award-winning academics, Doctors James Shippen and Barbara May

Coventry’s biomechanics experts – whose unique exhibit uses motion capture technology to show how gardening can be healthy - won the prize in the "Discovery" category, which focuses on the science behind growing plants.

Tata Steel: Government warned over pension cut plan

Ex-pensions minister Steve Webb urged caution over "rushed changes" he said could have implications for workers "well beyond the steel industry".

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His sentiments were echoed by one former steel worker from Leamington Spa, Clive Sutton, who says he's "deeply worried" about the government's involvement.

He said: "I've been paying into my pension all my working life. I can see the government is under the cosh to be seen to be doing something, but the problems the steel industry faces have been clear for many years and the government of the day has repeatedly failed to take action."

However, the trustees of the British Steel Pension Scheme welcome the move, about which further details are expected when Business Secretary Sajid Javid makes a statement.

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HS2 project "overpriced" says group of academics

A group of independent transport experts has described the proposed new high-speed rail link, HS2, as "an over-priced project that will fail in many of its objectives".

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The academics say they support the project in principle - but claim it could be completed much more cheaply, and with lower carbon emissions.

One of the authors, Professor Tony May, from the University of Leeds, says it's time to ask what tax-payers are getting for their £56bn.

What the scheme was designed to do was to add capacity out of London, improve connections between cities, regenerate the North and contribute to reducing carbon emissions. And the only one of those that it clearly achieves is increasing capacity.